Who let Cat near the paint again?

Can we talk about how much I’ve missed Cat drinking paint? Is it really awful of me to have missed that?
It’s been years since I’ve seen cereal commercials – like with the Cheerio’s bee? Did they stop using a lot of these mascots, or do I just not watch the right programming anymore?
So many Questions.

The last time I saw a cat going at an open bucket of paint, Cat was the first thing I thought of. My second thought was, You! cat! get away from that paint!

Now I understand why New Zealand supermarkets are suddenly selling Doritos, even though we already had our own perfectly adequate corn-based snacks.

Reading this comic, the names just sound like whimsical nonsense to me (‘Booberry’ and ‘Frankenberry’???), but when they’ve made the language of food universal, I will instantly recognise them all as the names of breakfast cereals.

Yeah, food imperialism, iijaa!

Ha ha ha! Cat can’t hold his paint! But he does wear it well.

This strip really brings back the old days. I can only surmise that they’re about to take a nostalgic trip back to the frosting factory.

That’s OK though, the frosting factory is still awesome.

I went to high school with a girl whose mom was in a knitting club with a woman who was best friends with a lady who was the sister of… Kevin Bacon. (Four degrees!)

Clearly, everyone you know can be traced to the star of “Footloose”.

When it blew up, did it Snap, Crackle, Pop?

I often feel embraced, but robotripping and sipping paint have different effects.

So what cereal would Cat be the mascot of? Paint flakes?

Is it the dawning realisation of the strangeness and inhumanity of the universe that has given us the need to anthropomorphise our cereal?
Are those the gods and monsters of contemporary mythology?

To Emily:

A bunch of sugary cereals were forced to withdraw charismatic mascots on the grounds of their espousing products with not enough nutrition.

I recently noticed that Honey Nut Cheerios changed its recipe. …It’s good. No more high-fructose corn syrup. We get brown rice syrup instead. It tastes the same as before; maybe a little more umami.

Everyone knows everyone

Every man does not know everyone

What about Count Chocula? it saddens me that he seems to only have made it into a reference in The Office for one episode. do they make count chocula anymore? oh wait…im on the internet…

Ohhhh! id never heard of Frankenberry and Booberry before but theyre on the same wikipedia page with the Count. thats close enough

I look the same way whenever I eat ice cream.

But really, the best cereal mascot ever was Cartoon Mr. T. He would have pitied near every other mascot half to death.

“I don’t wanna have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box! Snap, Crackle, Mitch & Pop!

‘Hey, how the eff did he do that?’

In Hollywood it’s all about who you know, and I know Crackle.” -Mitch Hedberg

Count Chocula was an ice-cream here. Minty.

The last panel reminds me of this quotation from Marilynne Robinson’s, “Housekeeping”:

“Water is almost nothing, after all. It is conspicuously different from air only in its tendency to flood and founder and drown, and even that difference may be relative rather than absolute.”

Food imperialism sucks. For any UK readers, my age is clear from my nostalgia for Marathon and Opal Fruits, cruelly rebranded in their prime. Ou sont les confectionaries d’antan?

We snicker at your Marathon bars, and burst our stars at your…

…

Okay, food imperialism really has gone too far.

On the other hand, why does Tescos always look and act like WWII food rationing back in force around closing time?

You would not believe how much a Violet Crumble costs if you buy it in the States.

Kevin Bacon = breakfast food.

I see.